The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-02-04
written tor the MONITOR.
LITTLE SERMONS.


LITTLE SERMONS.
BY }. N. >.
A loving, pure heart makes tile face of a
friend shine in upon us with Gods bene-
diction.
NJ
A forgiving heart shines with the beauty
of heaven.
Each warning against evil enters into
our hearts as an angel; and if we heed it as
an angel it abides blessing; if we heed it
not it falls from angelhood into deyihood,
becoming demon that abides cursing.
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Revenge is the laughter of the devil,
hooking MS with a spiritual hurt that the
hand of any other enemy could never in
fict
To each man there is duty which can
not by other hands be done, and which
cannot upon other heart bestow the glory
of nobleness, but it is only found through
the patient search of doing with the might
what the hand finds to do, when in a dream
of blessed reality there is love and a
vorce and no death to annul--the love and
marriage of the soul unto its duty well
done. Thus duty loved and done and
the soul are forever one and indiyisible,
and they live in an eternal home Of infinite
glory and gladness.
Gods time was the only good time and
he who waits for that time has a love
marriage and abides under the smile of
glory, but who will not await it has a mar
Rage in lust and abides under the frown of
doom; so keep on at the earnest, believing
prayer, keep on at the unwayering faith
full doing of what duty lies to your hand,
and in Gods own good time you will stand
glorified in what blessings are in His in
finite heart TO bestow on yon.
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For all that can be done now Gods best
time is now, and for what cannot be done
now His best time is then. And to reverse
His best time, is like running tw o trains on
the same track towards each other, issuing
in sad wreck. But letting each speed its
own course in its own time, the trains of
duty done sing their song of successful in
dustry along the track of faithfulness and
success.
x*x
At the gates of birth the engine OF life is
started, and there is no hand to stop its
throbbings but the hand of death; and yet
God sits upon the engine and makes it full
fill His will.
Time is the policeman who cries ever
move on! move on, and we must all obey
his voice ana cannot find resting place
from his command. Like little Joe the
church yard is the only resting place from
his weary wasting words.
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Imagination bad magician;
Spite of commonsense lo9ician:
Thou the burden makest MS carry,
OF the years that yet do tarry.
With heavy burdens thou hast freighted
Hearts that years yet might have waited.
x#x
Worship is the Photographic plate that
catches and holds the image of God.
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All life is trust that faithful hands
I'll haDJe ruct
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By eternal necessity there lies in free
will the glad possibility of heaven or the
dread possibility of hell. 1t is ladder to
climb into heaven on or slippery hill
down which to slide into hell. Truly in
eating from the tree of will with our own
hand there is knowledge of good and
evil; and which we shall know permanently
and perfectly depends upon the direction
in which we turn the face of our education.
1t lies in our power to turn it evilward or
goodward. On the canvas OF eternity we
paint ourselves in living reality with the
magic brush of free villa living reality
blessed or a living reality accursed. With
chsel of choice we carve ourselves images
of beauty or faces OF despair; the fine art
of Joy or the marring of pain.
x**
No man is assured Of an eternal peace
who is not learning to take delight in God.
BE MAN.
Foolish spending is the father of pow
erty. Do not be ashamed of hard work.
Work for the best salaries or wages you
can get, but work for half price rather
than be idle. BE your own master, and